Surgical Menopause

Awareness UK Day

30 October 2025

VIRTUAL PANEL EVENT

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“Surgical Menopause & Me”

Join us for a candid, open conversation about women’s experiences of surgical menopause with this insightful panel event from the comfort of your sofa.

Date: 30 October 2025
Time: 7pm

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Amplifying women’s experiences of surgical menopause

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Handwritten note pinned with a red pushpin that discusses menopause and endometriosis.

Note pinned with a pink pushpin on a white board. The note is handwritten and reads: "After my ovaries were removed, I was discharged without HRT and told to just ask my GP for it. The GP said I needed the consultant to prescribe it and I was left in a limbo while they sorted it out between them."

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Women deserve better care after
life-changing surgery

On the first Surgical Menopause Awareness Day 2025, we’re highlighting lived experience centre stage and ask the NHS to treat surgical menopause as distinct from natural menopause, with care that matches the evidence. We’re calling for the following:

Introduce mandatory pre-operative counselling for all women facing ovary removal that includes HRT where clinically safe.

Record and report HRT prescribing rates
post-surgery and accurately record any complication as a result of surgical menopause in women’s medical records.

Publish national clinical guidance on surgical menopause care that offers women a separate pathway to natural menopause in line with the severity of symptoms.

To ensure that women in surgical menopause are offered individualised care, and surgical menopause is recognised as a distinct state from natural menopause.

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